Many organisations have contracts in place with third parties for the supply of goods and services. Some of these contracts may rely on processing personal data of employees, for instance, the outsourcing of PAYE. If this is the case, these contractors, as data...
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Pubs will collect your personal data!
The lockdown is all but at an end in England. Many businesses reopened on 4th July, with the government allowing pubs, restaurants, cinemas, museums and hotels to reopen. Part of the conditions attached to this are that pubs will collect your personal data. The...
Authoring of Privacy Notices
Privacy notices are an important part of your compliance work. Your privacy notice will explain to the audience how data protection principles are applied in your business and how personal data is processed. A privacy notice is published whilst a Privacy Policy is an...
GDPR for Landlords
What Landlords need to do in order comply with GDPR and how a specialist agent can help without breaking the bank. What is GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation)? The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) replaces the Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC and...
GDPR for all Landlords
Landlords, be they small investors or portfolio landlords are businesses and are required to be compliant to the GDPR. We have three unique offerings to help all landlords become compliant to the GDPR. The pack is designed to help landlords adopt practices that ensure...
Working from Home
With the current challenges we are facing, brought about Coronavirus, Covid-19, working from home is now mainstream. But, what does this mean to your data security, GDPR and do you have a working from home policy in place that all staff can understand? Children and...
GDPR Breach Reporting
GDPR Data Breach Support Service Identifying a data breach under the GDPR is not easy and you must fully understand it in order to remedy and report. How do you follow the process for GDPR breach reporting? Therefore, you need to who has been affected? What is the...
GDPR Data Breach Support Service
Identifying a data breach under the GDPR - who has been affected, how extensive it is and how it happened – within 72 hours can pose a challenge for any business. With the threat of a data breach becoming increasingly imminent, it’s vital that your organisation is...
GDPR DSAR Support Service
This service is a cost-effective way for data controllers to accommodate DSAR’s (Data Subject Access Requests) and comply with Article 15 of the EU GDPR. Accommodating DSARs The EU GDPR requires you to respond quickly and effectively, to be precise, 30 days to...
GDPR Gap Analysis
A GDPR gap analysis is a method of assessing the differences in performance between a business being complaint or not. This is to determine whether business requirements are being met. If they are not then what steps should be taken to ensure they are met...
Data protection health-checks
Why is a Data Protection Health Check important? GDPR, other regulations and data protection best practices are not one time operations. They aren't set and forget They are on-going, living projects that require constant attention and maintenance. The GDPR Compliance...
California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)
CIVIL CODE - CIV DIVISION 3. OBLIGATIONS [1427 - 3273] ( Heading of Division 3 amended by Stats. 1988, Ch. 160, Sec. 14. ) PART 4. OBLIGATIONS ARISING FROM PARTICULAR TRANSACTIONS [1738 - 3273] ( Part 4 enacted 1872. ) TITLE 1.81.5. California Consumer Privacy Act of...
Business as usual for the GDPR following Brexit
The U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office said it is “business as usual for data protection”. The EU General Data Protection Regulation will continue to apply as the United Kingdom has now left the European Union. A Brexit transition has now begun, running through to...
It’s not just big companies that will receive a GDPR fine from the ICO
The ICO Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued a fine to a London-based pharmacy for £275,000. This was for failing to ensure the security of special category data. We have all heard about Marriott and British Airways receiving a GDPR fine for data...
GDPR Data Privacy Manager Service
Our GDPR Data Privacy Manager Service is for those in need of extra data protection support. The Data Privacy Manager team are available whenever you need them, via email, telephone and Zoom. Data protection support for GDPR compliance Even for those organisations who...
EU Representative in Europe
Do you have a need to appoint an EU GDPR Representative according to Art. 27 (GDPR? The GDPR Compliance Consultancy can act as your single point of contact for in the EU and EEA. Once we are appointed, you have complied with Art. 27 GDPR, which is an...
Using the Facebook ‘Like’ button on your web site makes you a joint data controller without consent
It is now official, replying the Facebook 'Like' button on your web-site could render you non-compliant to the GDPR. A landmark ruling by the European Court of Justice has decided that web site owners can be held liable for data collection when using the so-called...
The GDPR – One Year On
The GDPR has been in force for 12 months and the anniversary passed with much less fanfare than a year ago. What has happened and what has changed? Our MD, Howard Freeman looks back and discusses the last year, in the exciting world of GDPR. A year...